QUOTATION 10
WARREN BENNIS ON WHY FAILING ORGANISATIONS NEED LEADERSHIP NOT MORE MANAGEMENT
Use this to remind you of the need to let go and empower others.
Warren Bennis (1925–2015) was a management consultant, writer and academic who pioneered the comparatively new field of leadership studies. In both his research and consultation work he observed that:
Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren Bennis
Bennis’s argument is that too many organisations micro-manage their staff and in doing so crush their enthusiasm and their willingness to act independently. When things start to go wrong, management assumes that the answer is even greater control of staff and additional policies and procedure, when what is actually ...
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